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Great reaction but I have the impression that you may not be aware that the song that brought you here, "Man of Constant Sorrow", was actually performed by this group and in the movie George Clooney was merely lip-synching. Here’s a live performance, and the singer is Dan Tyminski: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EuJ8xEByUf4.html
@@joetspaulding yes... not by the Grammy awards, but in general. She doesn't get the love publicly that she deserves. I rarely run into people who have even heard of her yet she has the 4th most Grammy awards of anyone. Awards don't always equal public recognition or over all fame. That's what I'm referring to.
@@debbieallan5173 I have to agree! Country has been my family's whole life and I didn't know that! I think she's good, but not many people know who she is. Everytime I talked to someone about her music, they ask who is she?? Quite frankly I rarely ever hear her!
You like the strings because every musician on that stage is world class. It’s a wonder the stage doesn’t collapse beneath the weight of all that talent. Best of the best.
It's one of those performances where the absence of emoting and over-singing only highlights the heart-rending meaning of the words and the perfect synergy of words and music. After hearing it many times, I still can't get through it without weeping.
Dan Tyminski, who is a member of Union Station was the singing voice of George Clooney 's character in Oh Brother movie. You can find video on youtube of Union Station performing "I am a man of constant sorrows" and Alison also sang a song on the soundtrack.
@@denroy3 yeah, she’s hilarious. She was talking about how she liked to go into a record store and find the saddest song they have - and then make it sadder. 😂😂
some of her other hits are: when you say nothing at all, whiskey lullaby, ghost in this house, til i can gain control again, never cared for you and many others......she is beautiful inside and out...ENJOY!!!!!
@ Trish, 🥃 "Whiskey Lullaby" is an 👍 suggestion by Alison Krauss and Brad Paisley. POLO, 🚨🥺😢 this is a rough, sad, but one amazing song. Here is a Live version - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RxeinEAoq0E.html Here is the music video - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IZbN_nmxAGk.html Alison Krauss and Union Station "When You Say Nothing at All" - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1SCOimBo5tg.html
You mentioned strings and I have to tell you that the man on her right playing the resonating guitar is Jerry Douglas, widely regarded as the finest dobro player in the history of the world. His deft picking complements her voice so incredibly well.
Alison Krause is pitch perfect, and has incredible breath control. Listen to her sing.When You Say Nothing At All. Also listen to Rhiannon Giddens: Wayfaring Stranger. For Country I love Johnny Cash, and all the songs on the album for the movie about him Walk The Line are great, but especially God Will Cut You Down sung by him when he was old and sick. One of the reasons that I like Country in all its forms is that you can listen to real musicians, and artists who can sing and also play an instrument. One of the best guitarists is Vince Gill. Give a listen to Tulsa Time with him, Sheryl Crow, and Eric Clapton, and Vince alone with Go Rest High On That Mountain. Oh, almost forgot: Linda Ronstadt with Blue Bayou.
That's a soul crusher. 'Go rest high on that Mountain' is another must experience for anyone and everyone. The live version at Carnegie hall shows what REAL singers can do.
Yes and I could come up with 10 names easy that could replace Brad Paisley and do just as well or better, can not say the same for Allison, no one comes close.
Jerry Douglas, Ron Block, Barry Bales, Larry Atamanuik, and Dan Tyminski are absolute professionals, the best in the business, and Alison Krauss just tops it off at the supreme amount of talent this band has! They are one of my go to's when it comes to listening to great music. One of my all time favorites, which is a cover from the band Shenandoah, is "Ghost In The House". The live version of that is spectacular! Also, Alison's work with greats like Vince Gill, Brad Paisley, and Led Zeppelin's rock god Robert Plant just cement her as one of the keystones of music and musical talent!
Couldn't agree with you more. Don't get me started on Alison Krauss. What an angel. Beautiful soloist and harmonizes well with anybody. She did an album called Raising Sand with Robert Plant, of Led Zeppelin fame. Fantastic album. Bluegrass is where it's at. Beautiful melodies and harmonies, and musicianship second to none. Great post. p.s.- The song "Freeborn Man" would be a great follow up.
She’s definitely live. You can hear her breath sounds in between. She sounds like an angel without any help which is wild in this day and age, I know. I love older country and always will because of the quality voices, the storytelling, music and so on.
In the movie O Brother Where Art Thou, the bluegrass family singing/playing are the Cox Family. I went to high school with that family in the 80’s in Cotton Valley, Louisiana. Alison Kraus got that band signed and big and has remained friends with them since. Alison regularly comes to visit our little town and she sang at one of the band members sons wedding two years ago.
She did a duet with Andrea Bocelli of Amazing Grace that will make you cry. Allison did one with Natalie MacMaster called “Get me thru December.” This came out after I lost my children at Christmas and didn’t think I would survive it. God walked with me.
my dad used to get her up on stage to perform with his bluegrass band in the early 80s. Her parents would bring her down to the festivals (she grew up about an hour north of us). She was amazing even at an early age, a true gem.
Alison Krauss was an award-winning fiddle player as a teenager before she formed her band and cut her first album. (BTW, I've been to three of her concerts, one of them in a little up-close-and-personal club where you could really hear her - and she really does sing that perfectly on key and beautifully. She is as nice a person as she seems on stage too.
She’s the best. If you ever get a chance to see her live DO IT!! Something amazing always happens at some point in her shows. For instance, her band says that when she holds certain notes the instruments on stage that they aren’t playing start ringing out because her voice is so in tune. Iv’e seen her three times and something sonically amazing has happened at all three shows.
Such a beautiful voice! When most people first hear Alison sing, their thought is 'she sounds like an angel'. I couldn't agree more. Listen to her song Jacob's Dream. Very haunting, beautiful and based on a true story.
Alison Krause has the most perfect voice ever. When she sings, the world stops. Watch her. No matter what she sings, it’s effortless. Exquisite! Listen to her version of “Losing You”. Also, listen to “A Man Of Constant Sorrpw” by Brothers of the Heart!
They did the soundtrack for "OH Brother Where Art Thou". I have been lucky enough to see them live in concert twice in Oregon. Watch the whole video of Allison Krauss and Union Station live. It is amazing! ❤❤
Vince Gill started in pop and he writes beautiful songs, incredible guitarist. His voice is so beautiful and smooth. He had success in pop but loves his Country music because of story telling. He wrote a song when his brother passed. "Go rest high on the mountain" it gives you goosebumps and a tear. ❤️
Well now, you need to know that Alison Krauss sang in "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?; when the sirens were washing clothes down at the creek, that was Alsion singing! Alison has been performing some Led Zeppelin songs with Robert Plant for a few years now. They sing very well together; start with "Black Dog". Alison is a fine violin player too.
There is so much more from her. Go back to her early albums. Amazing! I heard her for the first time in a motel on a trip with my mom. It was late and I turned on the tv and she was playing. This was early 90s. I fell in love with her voice and have listened ever since. She and her entire band is pure talent. ❤
I first saw Allison Krause at the Minnesota state fair as the opening act for Amy Grant.. mid 90’s… loud outdoor crowd, she came up to the stage and started to sing, never heard such a beautiful voice.. been a big fan since that day. So many great songs! ❤
I went to see O Brother Where Art Thou and people were singing along with all the old songs that I knew. I went directly to the music store and bought the soundtrack! My dad was from Tennessee so I grew up with country music. He and mom played guitars and their friends played guitar and piano. We lived in tiny towns growing up and they played for dances locally. Love your reactions. Keep great music alive young man 👵🏼💜☮️
"Paper Airplane" is probably my favorite Allison Krauss and Union Station song (there is a great performance from this on the Letterman show). Another great song is "Shadows" they did with Tony Rice!
I was one of the millions who bought the O Brother Who Art Thou soundtrack when the movie came out. My favorite song of Allison's is "If I Didn't Know any Better". Her voice in that haunting song is pure perfection.
I have a cool tie in with your love of Constant Sorrow. The real-life vocals for The Soggy Bottom Boys in the movie were provided by Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, bluegrass musician Pat Enright, and Dan Tyminksi, a guitar and mandolin player on loan from Alison Krauss and Union Station.
I was extremely privileged to see & meet a lot of famous bluegrass musicians as a youngster. My parents are old hippies & every summer we would spend the summers going from bluegrass festival to bluegrass festival. I met a lot of legends. I actually met Alison Krauss the first time when she was just 16-17yrs old & toured with her friend also named Alison. 🤗 You should definitely check out Tim & Molly O'Brien if you've never heard them, but actually you've heard Tim O'Brien in O brother where art thou!
I agree with what you are saying about the string instruments. It’s like the different string instruments are also harmonizing with each other, not just the voice is harmonizing. That unique sound just attracts you to want more. If you want to hear Allison’s voice just mesmerize you war, her cover of the late great Keith Whitley’s song “when you say nothing at all” will do it. But if you hear Keith Whitley’s version first you would never be disappointed. He is the epitome of one of the greatest country voices ever..
Your so right she is soooo clean and precise...I cry when I listen to this song...long time fan if hers ..you found someone special here sir...well done.
My daughter and I were fortunate to be at a concert of theirs. Perhaps the best concert we ever went to. Constant music. Even when she and the group took a break, Jerry Douglas continued with solos. A perfect concert.
She was also on the soundtrack for O Brother Where Art Thou. She sings Down to the River to Pray. You might also want to listen to Nickel Creek’s music. They are also bluegrass singers.
Alison Krauss has been a favorite of mine for a long time. There’s so many great bluegrass bands: Ralph Stanley, Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys, Tony Rice, Sam Bush, Rhonda Vincent, JD Crowe & New South, Del McCoury, the Seldom Scene, the Country Gentleman, Ricky Skaggs, Bela Fleck…a lot of these artists play together in different bands. Some of these artists are deceased, but left a legacy of great music. You can find a lot of them on RU-vid. I’ve been a bluegrass fan for a really long time and I keep discovering new bands. Enjoy your search!
I sang in a choir with a woman who has/had (she was considerably older than I am, and I’m now 68) perfect pitch and she said the only drawback was that she couldn’t mentally transpose up a third or down a fifth-her brain made her sing what her eyes saw. If anyone with perfect pitch reads this, I’d love to know if that was simply a Judy issue or is it commonplace among the PerPit crowd…
@@maryrosekent8223 That's interesting. Singers I know with perfect pitch can sing any note whether or not they see it on a score, and many of them can sing up a perfect fifth, or a diminished fifth, or an augmented fifth, and tell you what each note is. An enviable skill, for sure. And then there are complete musical geniuses like Alma Deutscher, who compose complete piano sonatas from notes randomly drawn from a hat. Here's an example: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VVYKQoolbM4.html
Want angelic voices? Please treat yourself to this!! By Alison Krauss… “My Ain True Love” from the movie, Cold Mountain… just close your eyes and dream away. It’ll break your heart.
The producer of the "O Brother Where At Thou?" soundtrack was T Bone Burnett who produced both albums with Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. Their first album, Raising Sand, swept the Grammys in 2009.
T Bone Burnett is a damn genius. He put the music together for that movie. There’s also a live show of many of the artists called Down From the Mountain you should check out.
I had the pleasure of seeing Alison Krauss and Union Station live several years ago and trust me, her vocals live are more magnificent than any studio performance. I literally had goosebumps during the entire concert. She just stepped up to the microphone and let that beautiful voice come out effortlessly. Truly a gift from God.
Oh what a fun genre! It might be my current favorite, in fact. Alison Krauss is so talented. Some other great artists to check out in this genre: well, there's a compilation album with Alison Krauss that also has James Taylor, Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and many other super talented bluegrass artists called "Appalachian Journey." Also, some other great female bluegrass groups and artists are Red Molly, Crooked Still, The Wailin' Jennys, Sarah Jarosz. There are so many others, too. One that I would *love* to see you react to is Chris Stapleton when he was in the group the Steeldrivers. Omg, they were so amazing together. They're still a great group! But of course when Chris was with them, he added his Chris touch. My two favorites of theirs are Ghosts of Mississippi and Blue Side of the Mountain. They have a lot of great ones. Chris and Patty Loveless recently did a live performance at the 2022 CMA Awards for the song You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive. Red Molly sings a fantastic version of the same song, as well. Sigh. I believe I've given too many recommendations, but if you consider listening to even one more bluegrass song on this channel, you may have a hard time not listening to the genre's entire catalog. Enjoy!
I was just listening to Alison Kraus and Brad Paisley - Whiskey Lullaby. When you posted this... Yes I have always loved Alison Kraus. She is true blue grass.
I saw Alison Krauss live once, in 2017 or 2018, and had the same reaction about the quality of her voice: when she began to sing, I expected to hear something less pristine than what I've heard from her on recordings ... it's live, after all. But there it was: this impossibly crystal clear voice coming at us in such high beauty it was almost too much to bear.
My parents played in a bluegrass band when I was growing up and I was fortunate enough to meet a lot of great bluegrass musicians union station being one of them
I have said exactly the same thing. I saw Alison and Union Station during this tour, and he is absolutely correct. They are perfect every time. You might as well be listening to an album. But, they have been playing together since Alison was 14 years old. She and Dan met each other when they were 14, and I've seen a video of her playing with Barry when they were both so young!
Her voice has always resonated with me. It's beautiful and haunting, and she's a fabulous storyteller. I'm going to keep on you to react to Ren, "HI Ren", because you talk a lot about loving storytellers, and identify with dealing with depression. That song will hit your soul.
Hi Polo ! This is the band that played in the movie "O Brother Where Art Thou" Get the dvd Alison Krauss and Union Station all live and all excellent ! Alison is a gift from God ! an ugly duckling that became a goddess !
AKUS are amazing!! Some of the finest musicians in music! Please listen to their song, “If I Didn’t Know Any Better”. The swells of voices and harmony in this song are mind blowing.
